https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/10/26/listen-to-trust-the-lay-faithful-pope-tells-synod-members/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:01:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/10/26/listen-to-trust-the-lay-faithful-pope-tells-synod-members/#comment-97944 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:01:25 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=27377#comment-97944 We know it is impossible for the Catholic Church to change her teaching substantially. While doctrine can develop in order to become more explicit, dogma can not. While teaching can be further clarified any clarification can not contradict that taught before. That which is not incompatible with the promises of Christ with regards to the church, is possible even if difficult to accept. A teaching that was true at one point can not be false now.

]]> https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/10/26/listen-to-trust-the-lay-faithful-pope-tells-synod-members/#comment-97752 Sun, 29 Oct 2023 05:58:34 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=27377#comment-97752 Creatures of habit or creatures in habit both men and women have the potential to do far more than only display unnecessary clericalism. Emancipation and liberation of clerics from clericalism is the need of the hour world wide. Jesus of Nazareth in his time tried to liberate the high priests, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Levites, the Tax Collectors and such other fellow mortals from the burden of limitations and yokes they carried as part and parcel of their clericalism.

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